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Best of the Web Today columnist James Taranto on the feminist backlash to his columns chronicling the war on men and Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill’s hold on Gen. Helms.

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... I ... I probably went viral last week it was by our best of the Web Today columnist James ran so ... it is defending remains General Susan Helms into ... the decision to grant Clemency to an officer under her command ... we've been accused of sexual assaults ... and now ... there is a member of the Senate who is holding up her nomination as a result of that decision ... he knew what to think that James declared o o o war on women based on the responses city got ... my in states thanks again for for for staying with this I was ... the first response to this come up on the screen ... this is from Twitter ... says James ran to ... your comments re prosecuting sex assault equal scrutinizing criminalizing male sexuality are deplorable ... you are no better than any rate this that's from ... a lady who calls herself period when Hatcher from Twitter genes very very strong words there yet and I and and ten when words are I am no better than a rapist why because I reported the news and I expressed an opinion country to feminist orthodoxy ... this woman is literally accuse me of a fall crop ... by that I have long argued that feminism contemporary feminism is a totalitarian mindset ... I think this illustrates one engine system to clear the column was descending ... a very accomplished woman yet whose prosecution is being held up write to sort of collateral damage and collateral damage ok let let's let's go to the second question here look ... we certainly don't like the idea of guys being falsely accused of rape by their but ... according to stats from a recent British study only zero point six percent of rape cases over the course of one year ... turned out to be false allegations that's from ... Natasha Burton cosmopolitan ... dot com again ... read this I ... was so great this Butler was one of two articles that I desperately did about to become a beach that cosmopolitan magazine activists ... look ... you know you can trust is its trouble with the study is this is a study ... of cases in which British prosecutors ... won convictions of rape ... and then the prosecutors later established conclusively ... that the by the art defendants have been falsely chips ... so first of all a lot of false accusations are weeded out in the decision to put a prosecutor or are turned back by juries ... and prosecutors are generally not the business of going back after winning prosecutions ... and finding out who was falsely accuse of the statistic means nothing there other statistics that show ... much higher ... rates of all second let's hope the folks at cost nor watching TV believing in a column ... I would really go on to question number three ... but some opposition calling for the disciplining of Taranto in a formal meeting ... the Wall Street Journal's editorial board this is from ... Henan's Foundation petition from June twenty first it was also as income on and the Daily Beast ... I'm I'm rather busy would you mind of those who had been in a while now I remember the editorial board I'd I ate it and expressing an opinion is what we do to get a court that on the one hand tied their calling for me to be disciplined ... again reinforces the point I made about the nature of five of contemporary feminism why is it that when and why is so talented they would they want me to be punished for reporting the news for expressing an opinion contrary to their orthodoxy which they won everyone except one the other hand ... let's give credit where due ... I do we know that that this foundation treated this morning ... quote the WSJ heard our cries ... thanks for speaking out against James Toronto sexist rhetoric ... now what happened was we published a letter to the Editor from the head of the Ms Foundation in today's paper ... I think they can misunderstand it's not the paper speaking out in the paper ... offering them a forum to reply debate ... they are the ones speaking out but that's actually the way that you're supposed to deal with speech that you find objectionable ... not by suppressing speech for three more speech so they kind of stumbled into ... by doing doing it the first amendment was ok ... weren't for the last question on the screen now quote ... James Taranto should be called out for when he is ... on the side to this and a dinosaur that has from time Daniels in the Washington inspected us not to be confused with the American spectator let's be clear about that ... I'd ... buy categorically reject the class but that ... the label decided this I'm actually quite fond of women ... are but I will probably only the label of dinosaur ... you'd call me to write this or a sax ... I'm I'm speechless contests in the center left in it I got out of the Senate today columnist James Taranto ... thank so much for joining us Banks the show ...